⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend;
⁵ to preserve you from the loose woman,
    from the adventuress with her smooth words.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and a flattering mouth works ruin.

²³ He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
    than he who flatters with his tongue.

⁵ A man who flatters his neighbor
    spreads a net for his feet.